Gwendolyn MacEwen quotes
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“But it is never over; nothing ends until we want it to. Look, in shattered midnights, On black ice under silver trees, We are still dancing, dancing.”
-- Gwendolyn MacEwenSource : Gwendolyn MacEwen, Rosemary Sullivan (1999). “Gwendolyn MacEwen”, p.97, Exile Editions, Ltd.
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“Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise.”
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“All things are plotting to make us whole / All things conspire to make us one.”
-- Gwendolyn MacEwen
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“A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.”
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“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.”
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Source : Adelaide Crapsey, “November Night”
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